Paul Roderick EP (album reviews)
With a sound reminiscent of early Roxy Music, Eno and Talking Heads and styles spanning pop, rock, electronic and ska, Roderick’s elusive aura has quickly achieved a mythic status amongst peers, and attracted collaborators in the form of Spiritualized guitarist Mark Refoy, bombastic Moby vocalist Diane Charlemagne, The Specials writer and singer Neville Staple and Bob Skeat, bass guitarist with Wishbone Ash. With an impending full length album and live shows coming next year, Paul Roderick is poised to take his place amongst the British indie rock scene and draw back the curtains on a more opulent picture for 2011.
To hear tracks from the Paul Roderick EP click here
“Having spent the last year feverishly recoding his forthcoming debut album, ‘Fusion Paradox’ alongside critically acclaimed producer Mike Bennett; former member of The Fall, and renowned for his work with Ian Brown and The Stranglers, to name but a few. Roderick offers up a tantalizing cocktail of genres, running the gamut from pop to electro, dance, new wave and rock, to create a post modern convergence that looks set to be a breakthrough album for 2010.” www.pressreleasepoint.com
“Paul Roderick – Just like the man himself – is maddeningly difficult to tie down. Roderick is a new artist entirely happy to let his post-modernist convergence do the talking for him.” “The Track Jolts like a Glam Rock Disco..... If it was held on a bouncy castle.... With Brian Eno orchestrating a back-flip competition – such is the energy and vitality exuded.” Ipmvoice.com
A tar thick ska-influenced, bass driven amalgamation of edgy drums and slicing guitar riffs, it’s set to be released on flourishing indie label Mbop Records on September 27.” pressreleasepoint.com
“This track is very catchy and surprisingly from one song you can pick many influences most highlighted in ska and early 80’s synth while bringing a modern touch with an electric vibe and even a hint of rock.” Michael Teehan - Is this music.com
“Strong Ska edge with a modern twist into a great upbeat reggae beat enclosing mild guitar riffs, along with funky vocals.” Punkglobe.com
“People IQ brings you on a little journey throughout Paul Roderick’s many different styles and influences; both new and old, vintage and contemporary, and by the end, I can almost guarantee you’ll have the song’s strong hook and chorus stuck in your head for quite some time.” Sweettunez.com
“This is really weird and wonderful” Tastyfanzine.org.uk
Justin Grant NEWRY REPORTER review!
NEWRY REPORTER
Thursday 11th November 2010
By Gareth McCullough
''Starting to play live from the tender age of 15, Grant can quite rightly be regarded as one of the main players, along with the rest of his former band, Sugar Island, in blazing a trail for original music in the local area...
Now Justin is in the verge of releasing his debut solo album, 'Break the Wing' in early 2011 and with lead single 'Cry for Me' already receiving plenty of airplay across Europe and even further afield, things are going well right now for the affable singer-songwriter...'' Read article
Purchase the single today from iTunes.
You can check out the single,
plus some other cuts from the album, here.
Paul Roderick in latest issue of Music Maker, with featured artist Neville Staple on the cover
The debut album from rising star Paul Roderick, produced by Mike Bennett at Farheath Studio (Northampton) - Is lead feature in this months issue of Music Maker Magazine, featuring Neville Staple in the studio. (Nov/Dec).
Artists featured on the forthcoming album and debut EP (6th December) include: Neville Staple (The Specials), Diane Charlemagne (Moby) & Bob Skeat (Wishbone Ash) and Mark Refoy (Spiritualized).
To hear tracks from the Paul Roderick EP click here
To read article click here
UK Jazz Radio - November CD of the Month!
UK Jazz Radio announces the Verona Chard - Fever album as CD of the Month for November 2010. See Recent reviews for the album below. Verona has been asked to present a show on UK Jazz Radio called Women in Jazz showcasing female instrumentalists and singers both contemporary and from the past.
For research and feature purposes members of the media may download the Fever album tracks for free via http://veronachard.com/press_area
Please contact alice.frenchpr@mbopdigital.co.uk for info.
'I saw a great gig with Verona Chard and her band - a new classic based vocalist at the 606 Club, great night out.' / Richard Wheatley - Jazz FM
'One of the best versions of Fever I've ever heard, wonderful voice and great instrumentalists'/ Brian Soundy - UK Jazz Radio
Album available from Amazon, play.com, direct from the www.veronachard.com plus major outlets.
View Verona's profile here.
Justin Grant single storming the charts!
Justin Grant's debut single 'Cry For Me' has reached no. 10 in the UK and Irish HotDisc Chart, and up to no.36 in the European HotDisc Chart.
Purchase the single today from iTunes.
You can check out the single,
plus some other cuts from the album, here.
Verona gets a scorching review in the highly revered Jazz Journal!
We only did a feature this week on Mbop’s very own jazz star and now she’s only gone proved us right! Thanks Verona ;)
In all seriousness though, credit where credit is due, it is fantastic to see that our Verona is getting the plaudits she deserves.
Described as a “top-flight..ambitious début”, Fever seems to have got even more critics hot under the collar, no surprise to us mind!
To see the review, click here.
Preview of the album, click here..
The Specials’ Neville Staple Gets Down In The Studio!
Neville Staple and the gang have been hard at work with producer extraordinaire, Mike Bennett, laying down some vibes for the upcoming Paul Roderick album.
Famed for his vocal style, toasting, a forerunner of rapping which he brought with him to Britain when he immigrated from Jamaica aged 5; Neville is one of the godfathers of ska & rocksteady so who better to join the enigmatic Paul Roderick on his ska tribute tracks!
Munroes flying Rainbow Sun flag in the States!
Fresh from their raucous gig to celebrate towering frontman Robert Runciman’s 30th birthday in Camden, indie-rock scallywags The Munroes’ debut single has once again been showered with acclaim on the other side of the pond.
Already playlisted by LPM Voice, Penguin Rocks and CFMU and with reviews in Juice Magazine and Fingertipsmusic.com set to follow, NYC’s SweetTunez.com have just given it a stellar review, check it out for yourself, here.
Released on September 20 through Mbop Records, Rainbow Sun is a shimmering slice of indie-pop sure to ring the last juices out of the summer.
You can listen to the track and other cuts from the forthcoming LP, here.
Specials star to join Roderick sessions!
Paul Roderick’s genre-straddling debut singlePeople I.Q will finally be released on September 27, it has been confirmed.
The track, which is lifted from the forthcoming long player, Fusion Paradox, has just been given a cracking review by NYC’s hip music site, Sweet Tunez.
The album is currently being recorded with Mike Bennett (The Stranglers/Ian Brown/The Fall) with The Original Rude Boy himself Neville Staple fromThe Specials set to lay down vocals on a couple of tracks in the next week.
You can check out the single, plus some other cuts from the album, here.
Release date for Taste live album confirmed!
Intrinsically linked with the scene for more than four decades, leading lights of Irish blues music, Taste, are now set to follow-up their 2002 comeback album, Wall To Wall, with two new releases on Disonic Records.
First up will be a… ahem…. taster EP entitled …Going Live! which is available now, this will be followed by a full length album entitled Live In San Francisco - The Complete Concert on September 27.
Recorded in front of 30,000 fans in San Francisco’s Washington Square, this joyous album captures the veteran blues rockers on stellar form performing such classics as Same Old Story and Morning Sun plus a barn-storming rendition of drummer John Wilson’s worldwide hit, Gloria, from his time in Them – featuring Van Morrison’s daughter Shauna in playful mood on vocals.
Originally the vehicle which helped drive mercurial guitarist Rory Gallagher to worldwide acclaim in the late 1960s, Taste’s beguiling blend of blues, jazz, folk and rock on their first two releases – Taste and On The Boards - brought them to the attentions of rock giants Cream and Blind Faith...Read More here.
30 Rock for Munroes’ Rob!
London indie-rock scamps will help celebrate the 30th birthday of frontman Robert Runciman in true Camden style with another instalment of their Rock N Roll Aint Dead hoopla on August 27.
The quintet will kick-start the Bank Holiday weekend with a bang when they are joined by a host of friends at Tommy Flynn’s.
As well turning in a typical riotous performance themselves, they’ll be joined by The Carolines, Men Of Good Fortune, The Bread Stealers and Sadie Pickering with a special headlining slot from riff-tastic French/Swedish trio, Rodeo Massacre.
The action gets underway at 7pm with DJs taking you right through until 1am - and all this for a measly £5!
In other Munroes-related news, their West Coast-inflected gem of an indie-pop debut single,Rainbow Sun, will now be released on September 20.
You can swat up on The Munroes plus check out the single and a few of their other cuts, here.
Verona adds extra tour date
Jazz enchantress Verona Chard has added another date to her UK tour.
Jazz enchantress Verona Chard has added another date to her UK tour.
After kicking off her UK spree recently in the esteemed surroundings of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, the Mbop jazz siren will now play Newcastle’s prestigious Cherry Tree venue on August Bank Holiday Monday.
The date at the Jesmond restaurant and bar will follow three lunch-time shows in Edinburgh as part of the festival.
First though the chanteuse will continue her 16-date UK jaunt on August 24, with a charity set at Hammersmith Lyric.
To find out how to get tickets to this and other other UK dates, listen to an album sampler and order the album, click here.
Following news that jazz enchantress Verona Chard has added another date to her UK tour, you can now whet your appetite for the tour by watching her in action above.
Recorded when the star, who released her acclaimed debut, Fever, in July, launched her UK tour with an intimate date at Soho institution, Ronnie Scott’s, it should give you a tantalising insight of what to expect on the rest of her 16-date jaunt.
Jazz great Digby hails our Verona!
After kicking off her UK tour last Sunday in the esteemed surroundings of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Mbop jazz siren has just been showered with acclaim by famed cornettist Digby Fairweather.
The brass player had this to say after hearing the singer’s debut album, Fever:
”Verona’s new album Fever is a delight from opening act to epilogue! A thing of beauty - a sequence of very diverse songs. You’ll find a fantastic variety of material and Verona paying tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton with her visionary recreation of Humph’s menacing tone poem Jail Break. Verona is a fine new jazz singer.”
High praise indeed.
And the chanteuse will continue her 16-date UK jaunt later this month, with a charity set at the Hammersmith Lyric.
To find out how to get tickets to this and other other UK dates, listen to an album sampler and order the album, click here.
Justin Grant’s all Heart
We already knew he had soul, but now Celtic crooner Justin Grant has got Heart too!
As after the Northern Irish troubadour’s debut single Could You Cry For Me was made Record Of The Week on the Spanish arm of Heart FM, the Newry folk-pop singer is now set to be interviewed on the station this week. The lilting summer track, which is taken from his forthcoming debut LP, Break The Wing, is out now and Grant will be speaking about the release on the station on Wednesday, August 11.
Check it out the track for yourself, here and log on to hear the interview on Wednesday, here.
'Sugar Island front man goes it alone' Read newspaper article here
People I.Q is one Sweet Tune!
Set for release on August 23, People I.Q has been garnering great reviews with the Big Apple’s SweetTunez website the latest to shower it with plaudits, check out the review, here.
Feedback across commercial and digital radio stations in the UK (Radio 1 and Jools Holland are keen on it), US and Australia has also been positive, while all the big players in Ibiza with dropping various remixes of it into their set too.
Aussie DJ kings Tristan Garner and Timmy Trumpethave both been lapping up the electro mix and the extended mix respectively, while Liverpudlian legends Steve Laycock and Denny Dowd have been digging the electro mix.
Elsewhere, Frontrowfanz.com added it to their weekly playlist and it’s just received a stellar in Seattle bible, LPMVoice.
You can check out the various remixes below (including the original edit), here.
Verona’s tour bandwagon set to hit the road!
After wowing the jazz glitterati at Chelsea institution the 606 Club last month when she launched her debut album, Fever, Verona Chard will kick-off her UK tour on Sunday in equally esteemed surroundings - Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club.
The West Country enchantress will takeover Ronnie’s Bar on the first of 16 UK dates as part of a night intriguingly entitled, Jazz Versus Jukebox. Kicking off at 6pm (Verona will take to the stage at 8.30pm) the night consists of an amazing line-up of artistes continuing the age-old tradition of intertwining jazz and performance poetry, plus a unique ‘jukebox’ open mic with three spots for singers and three spots for poets - giving the audience a chance to showcase their skills of jazz improvisation or spoken word.
For just £7 on the door you will also get performances by Beyonder, Jazzman John and Natalie Fiawoo. Not a bad old line-up then, hey?
To listen to an album sampler, order the album and tour date details for Verona, click here..
Taste of live action from Irish blues legends
Intrinsically linked with the scene for more than four decades, leading lights of Irish blues music, Taste, are now set to follow-up their 2002 comeback album, Wall To Wall, with two new releases on Disonic Records.
First up will be a… ahem…. taster EP entitled …Going Live! which is available now, this will be followed by a full length album entitled Live In San Francisco - The Complete Concert. This is set for release later this summer.
Recorded in front of 30,000 fans in San Francisco’s Washington Square, this joyous album captures the veteran blues rockers on stellar form performing such classics as Same Old Story and Morning Sun plus a barn-storming rendition of drummer John Wilson’s worldwide hit, Gloria, from his time in Them – featuring Van Morrison’s daughter Shauna in playful mood on vocals.
Originally the vehicle which helped drive mercurial guitarist Rory Gallagher to worldwide acclaim in the late 1960s... Read more
The three-piece recently completed a European tour and will return to the Emerald Isle in August for two shows at the Woodstock Blues Festival in Belfast – the city they originally made their name in all those years ago.
You can find out more about them and hear a few tracks, here
C&C remixes get Mixmag thumbs up!
Ibiza 2010 is well and truly in swing and Mbop’s man-about-town in the Balerics has just dropped a report on C&C Music Factory’s progress in the clubbing mecca… word is the 2010 remixes of Sweat are going down a storm.
Australian mixmasters Tristan Garner and Timmy Trumpet, Scouse legend Steve Laycock, Dubai DJs Greg Stainer and Martin Metcalf, Hacienda ace face Graeme Park and NYC’s Oscar Poche are just a few of the coterie of DJs who have been lapping up the remixes - with the Disco, Nightstylers and Tribal versions hitting the mark. And the response has been positive in the UK too, with clubbing bible Mixmag praising Mike Bennett’s work on the production duties in particular in this month’s issue of the magazine. Read article
Due out on September 23 in advance of next year’s 20th anniversary of the seminal house floorfiller’s debut, you can check out some of the remixes for yourself, here.
Countdown to People I.Q launch is on, on, on!
With less than a month until the release of Paul Roderick’s utterly infectious, genre-stradling debut single, I’m just dropping you an update about Mbop’s latest signing.
Set for release on August 23, People I.Q has been garnering great reviews and feedback across commercial and digital radio stations in the UK (Radio 1 and Jools Holland are keen on it), US and Australia, while all the big players in Ibiza have been dropping various remixes of it into their set too. Aussie DJ kings Tristan Garner and Timmy Trumpet have both been lapping up the electro mix and the extended mix respectively, while Liverpudlian legends Steve Laycock and Denny Dowd have been digging the electro mix too. Elsewhere, Frontrowfanz.com have also added it to their weekly playlist and it’s just received a stellar in Seattle bible, LPMVoice.
You can check out the various remixes (including the original edit), here.
Justin Grant’s all Heart
We already knew he had soul, but now Celtic crooner Justin Grant has got Heart too!
As the Northern Irish troubadour’s debut single Could You Cry For Me has just been made Record Of The Week on the Spanish arm of Heart FM.
The lilting summer track, which is taken from his forthcoming debut LP, Break The Wing, will be released on August 2.
Check it out for yourself, here.
Verona’s 606 call in a triumph!
Mbop’s rising jazz siren Verona Chard has wowed a packed out audience at Chelsea’s 606 Club with a spell-binding set to launch her debut album, Fever.
Backed by a five-piece band, the solo star performed a mixture of tracks from the record, which has been inspired by John Dankworth’s Shakespeare And All That Jazz and features the late great Humphrey Lyttelton.
Luminaries from the world of jazz were in attendance to watch the West Country star kickstart the album promotion campaign, in what was a delightful mid-week celebration.
With the promotion campaign for the record now in full flow, Verona has also recorded an advert forJazz FM to publicise the release.
You can also listen to an album sampler and check out her UK tour dates which follow, here.
You can also listen to a recent radio ad below
Hot spell helps rocket In The Summertime up iTunes Chart!
As seasonal as cream teas, beer gardens and ahem… rain free Julys and Augusts, Mungo Jerry’s In The Summertime continues to prove a perennial favourite.
Currently riding high in the iTunes UK Download Chart, the Middlesex folk outfit original topped the singles chart with the lazy, hazy melodic number back in 1970 and 40 years on it appear to have captured the hearts and mind of a whole new generation. Originally penned by frontman Ray Dorset, the track has been covered by a whole host of artists over the years including Billy Idol and Shaggy, but the first version rightly remains the definitive rendition.
So, if you haven’t already, why not kick back and download the track for yourself, here?
Fever pitch in Chelsea as Verona launches debut album!
After wowing the masses at the Marlborough Jazz Festival recently, Mbop’s leading jazz light Verona Chard will finally launch her first album, Fever, tonight.
The record, which gets its official launch with a special set at Chelsea institution, the 606 Club, has been inspired by John Dankworth’s Shakespeare And All That Jazz and features the late greatHumphrey Lyttelton.
Luminaries from the world of jazz will be in attendance to watch the West Country star kickstart the album promotion campaign, in what should be a delightful mid-week celebration.
You can listen to an album sampler and check out her UK tour dates which follow, here.
Digby isn’t a Fairweather fan of Verona’s!
After wowing the masses at the Marlborough Jazz Festival recently, Mbop’s leading jazz light Verona Chard was tickled to get the thumbs up on her debut album, Fever, from industry legend Digby Fairweather.
The acclaimed cornettist showered the Ealing-based siren with praise backstage at the annual Wiltshire extravaganza and has been playing tracks from the record on his UK Jazz Radio show.
The record, which gets its official launch on Wednesday, July 21 with a special set at Chelsea institution, the 606 Club, has been inspired by John Dankworth’s Shakespeare And All That Jazz and features the late great Humphrey Lyttelton.
You can listen to an album sampler and check out her tour dates, here.
C&C remixes has White Isle in a Sweat
Ibiza 2010 is well and truly in swing and Mbop’s man-about-town in the Balerics has just dropped a report on C&C Music Factory’s progress in the clubbing mecca… word is it’s going down a storm..
Australian mixmasters Tristan Garner and Timmy Trumpet, Scouse legend Steve Laycock, Dubai DJs Greg Stainer and Martin Metcalf, Hacienda ace face Graeme Park and NYC’s Oscar Poche are just a few of the coterie of DJs who have been lapping up the remixes - with the Disco, Nightstylers and Tribal versions hitting the mark.
Due out on August 23 in advance of next year’s 20th anniversary of the seminal house floorfiller’s debut, you can check out some of the remixes for yourself.
Countdown to People I.Q launch is on!
With less than six weeks until the release of Paul Roderick’s utterly infectious, genre-stradling debut single, I’m just dropping you an update about Mbop’s latest signing.
Set for release on August 23, People I.Q has been garnering great reviews and feedback across commercial and digital radio stations in the UK (Radio 1 and Jools Holland are keen on it), US and Australia, while all the big players in Ibiza have been dropping various remixes of it into their set too.
Aussie DJ kings Tristan Garner and Timmy Trumpet have both been lapping up the electro mix and the extended mix respectively, while Liverpudlian legends Steve Laycock and Denny Dowd have been digging the electro mix too.
Elsewhere, Frontrowfanz.com have also added it to their weekly playlist.
You can check out the various remixes below (including the original edit), here.
Verona to light up Marlborough Festival
Sultry jazz siren Verona Chard will return to the live arena this weekend at Wiltshire’s Marlborough Jazz Festival.
The Ealing-based singer who will launch her debut album, Fever, at Chelsea institution, the 606 Club, on July 21, will take to the UK Jazz Radio Stage between 1pm and 4pm on Saturday at the long-running Wiltshire extravaganza.
Her performance will also coincide with her own radio show on the station, Women In Jazz.
If you don’t manage to make it to Marlborough though, fear not, as Verona has a lengthy UK tour pencilled in for the end of August onwards!
Check out all the dates and listen to an album sampler, here.
Tommy Thursdays for Munroes
Feverishly-tipped indie-rockers The Munroes will return to favourite Camden haunt, Tommy Flynn’s, on July 15 it has been confirmed.
The quintet, who are set to release the slice of late summery pop that is Rainbow Sun in September, regularly play the Camden live den as part of their Rock N Roll Aint Dead night.
The Thursday night slot - they’ll be on around 10pm - should be a heady way to kick-start the weekend early then!
To listen to the single and some of their other tracks from their forthcoming debut album, click here.
Listeners to go ga-ga for radio star Verona!
The details of Mbop Promotions’ jazz star-in-the-making Verona Chard’s radio show have finally been confirmed.
The Ealing-based chanteuse - who releases her debut LP Fever on July 21 - will present ‘Women in Jazz’ on UK Jazz Radio this Saturday (July 10) at 8pm where she’ll be looking at women vocalists, instrumentalists, composers and movers and shakers in the jazz world.
The show will coincide with her appearance on theUk Jazz Radio Stage at the Marlborough Jazz Festival in our Women in Jazz Event on the same - click here for more information.
Verona will be joined in the schedule by one of her heroes, jazz musician and broadcaster Digby Fairweather plus Dixieland, New Orleans and trad jazz expert Chris Walker.
With just a couple of weeks left until her album launch at the 606 Club, the Fever is spreading!
C&C classic gets Bent thumbs up!
Influential gay culture magazine Bent has given the revamped C&C Music Factory house anthem, Sweat, its stellar approval in the July issue of the magazine (see above).
A selection of disco, tribal, electro, Ibizan and club remixes have been cut by everyone from legendary New Jersey mixmaster Cheyne Christian to Brit producer de jour Mike Bennett (Ian Brown, Libertines, The Stranglers).
Check out some of the remixes for yourself, here.
Ibiza buzz rises for C&C Music Factory and Paul Roderick
The curtain may have only just gone up on the summer season on the White Isle, but the Mbop Promotions roster is making a real splash in clubland.
Both the revamped house classic, C&C Music Factory’s Sweat and Paul Roderick’s post-modernist debut People I.Q are going down great guns according to our man in the Balerics.
Plastik’s Iain Shepherd, Ibiza regular Axwell and NYC’s Benji Candelario are loving the new mixes of Sweat, while superstar DJ Roger Sanchez is still dropping the original ’90s version on a regular basis.
On the People I.Q front, Pacha’s Sarah Main, Mallorca Rocks’ Des Mitchell and Miss Devine are big fans, while Dublin mix-master James McCartan and Ibiza face Mark Netto like both tracks.
So it looks as if both will getting some serious airplay as the weeks unfold and hedonistic clubbers flock to the island.
You can check out some of the ace remixes by Mike Bennett (Ian Brown, The Stranglers, The Beat) and Nightstylers, here.
UK microsite launches for Rockabilly Legends
For those of you who had your musical tastebuds whetted at the weekend by the Sun Records documentary on BBC4… read on.
As this year will see the launch of Jerry Naylor’s Rockabilly Legends extravaganza and Mbop Promotions have just put together a microsite to publicise the launch.
Chronicling those halcyon days when those seminal ’50s rockers Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis revolutionised the music industry, the deluxe collection of CDs, covers, live albums, interviews, a hardback book and a comprehensive rockumentary has been lovingly pieced together by Naylor, the man who replaced Holly in The Crickets following his tragic death.
Already a huge success in the US, this collection is a real treat for old hands and newcomers alike.
And as promised, ahead of its big UK launch you can find out more about the release and check out a trailer, here.
Anyone for Pomegranate? Step forward Verona!
So that’s it then, another World Cup, another dreadful early exit for England. I just hope they make those underperformers fly back economy class like they did with the French players! And for goodness sake, can we have goal-line technology now? It’s getting beyond a joke!
Mild rant over, let’s get back to Mbop Promotions where things are decidedly rosier. With just a three weeks until the launch of her debut album, Fever, sultry-voiced jazz siren Verona Chard has just added two more dates to her intimate UK tour.
The jaunt which follows the album launch bash at Chelsea’s 606 Club on July 21 kicks off at London’s Cross Kings venue before taking in various UK towns and cities; including the Marlborough Jazz Festival and The Big Top in Stratford.
Originally scheduled to draw to a close with a show in Devizes in October 1, the Ealing-based singer will now play The Pomegranate Theatre in Chesterfield on October 18 before rounding things off in London at The Spice Of Life on October 20.
Exciting times ahead, then!
You can listen to an album sampler, get tickets details and order the album,here.
Rock N Roll Aint Dead for Munroes
Fresh from a blazing set at Hoxton’s Macbeth recently, new Mbop Promotions’ signings The Munroes will return to another of the capital’s stages tonight.
As the scuzzy, garage rockers will head to Camden for the second of their monthly live band nights, Rock N Roll Aint Dead.
Held at Camden High Street boozer Tommy Flynn’s on the last Friday of every month, the five-piece - led by the towering showman Robert Munro Runciman - kicked off the run with sets from Melody Nelson, The Dash and Bear Arms.
Ahead of the release of their sun-kissed debut single, Rainbow Sun, later this summer they’ll be joined at the follow-up bash on June 25 by four other acts.
Of course, falling back slap in the middle of the World Cup, hosting nights can be a precarious business - fortunately England won’t play their Second Round match until Sunday (against the Germans…. eek!) so you’re good to go.
Entry is a fiver and the action kicks-off around 8pm - it should be the perfect way to kick-start a (fingers crossed) triumphant weekend!
The Rhythm Factory’s gonna getcha!
It was responsible for the headiest moments on the British music scene since Blur went tête-à-tête with Oasis in the mid-’90s, and now, following the much-vaunted reformation of The Libertines this year, producer Mike Bennett has spruced up his Disonic tribute to The Rhythm Factory’s incendiary club night, Bring Your Own Poison - and the running order for the release has just been confirmed.
First released in 2004, the collection, which features a host of acts who shot to prominence thanks to a spree of guerilla gigs, has been given a deluxe makeover to coincide with The Libs return.
From Pete ‘n’ Carl’s ramshackle classic Up The Bracket and Babyshambles’ Killamangiro to Art Brut’s riotous Moving to LA and The Paddingtons’ Tommy’s Disease, it should have your memory bank whizzing back to a time when the line between band and audience was as frenzied and blurred as it’s ever been. And to beef up the collection, there will also be an ultra rare cut from Pete Doherty plus Mbop Promotions’ roster newbees The Munroes (who played on the bill when Pete and Carl hooked up again for the first time) and Paul Roderick too.
Here’s the full rundown:
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
The Lams - (You’re) On The List
The Selfish C*nt - Authority Confrontation
The Paddingtons - Tommy’s Disease
Art Brut - Moving To LA
The Rocks - Celeste
Tigermoth - Give Me Something
Babyshambles - Killimangiro
Thee Unstrung - You
Electricity Comes From Other Planets - You Stole My Brain
Pete Doherty - Back From The Dead
The Munroes - Univercity
Melody Nelson - The Otherside
Alberteen - Girl And A Gun
The Munroes - Gunning Us Down
The Summons - Come Down
Paul Roderick - Main Line Down To Euston
The Beat - Here I Am In Dub
The Summons - Tequila sunshine
